Improvement in combined packing-boxes and show-cases



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Bo'mbine'd Packing-Box and Show-Ease.

No. 134,480, Patented Dec.31,1872.

Witness Inventor.

Attorneys.

4M PHOTIIiITHDGIMPHIL CU. NJYOSBORNE P005553.

STATES PATENT Orrron.

JOEL NELSON, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENTJN COMBINED PACKING-BOXES AND SHOW-CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1341.,4180, datedDecember 31, 1872.

to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference markedthereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of the form ofacombined box and show-case, as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view with the lid open. Fig. 2represents a side view with the lid closed.

The body of my box is made in triangular form, with each end of theoblique line cut away. A A represent the end pieces, which are made inthe form as shown. E represents the bottom, B the back, and D the lid.The baseline at is horizontal, the back line bis vertical, and the frontline h is oblique at an angle of about forty-five degrees. At the upperend of each end piece A. the material is cut away and inclined downward,at c c, to the top edge of the back B, as shown. At the lower end ofeach end piece the material is cut away on a vertical line, and the endpieces and bottom E are connected by a strip, d. Upon the top of thisnarrow strip is hinged thelid D. This lid is provided with a projectingflange, e f g, on its three sides, so that when it is thrown forward onthe box-body the flanges fall over the top edges of the inclines h h andc o, as seen in Fig. 2. 1 The combined box and show case may beconstructed of any suitable material, and its interior may be providedwith horizontal or vertical shelves, and the back may be provided with amirror, if so de sired.

A box thus formed will be found advantageous for packing perfumery,toilet articles, medicines, 850., and by its peculiar formation bottlesand packages of different heights can be shown to great availability.

The lid, being hinged at the front of the box, will always fall onto thebox-body, unless thrown forward of the line vertical with the strip (1,and, when thrown open, forms a receptacle for cards, circulars, andother advertising mediums.

What I claim is a As an article of manufacture, the withindescribedcombined box and show-case, composed of the bottom 13, back B, endpieces A A, strip (1, and lid D provided with the flanges efg' andhinged at w to the strip d, all substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this30th day of October, 1872.

JOEL NELSON.

Vitnesses:

O. L. EVER'I, H. B. DREW.

